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Yup, its that bad. And although I was an absolute good girl at treating studying like a game for the first two of my prep class sessions, third time was charm in ushering me back to the ways of a lazy daydreamer.

It doesn't help my attention span that there are those incessant suck-ups in my class as per usual. They often tend to be boys (but not always as UW Statistics taught me), and they sicken me. I may be a good student but I could never even be acquaintances with those people who insist on attaching their lips to the teachers ass. Seriously. Do you think that is going to increase your LSAT score at all? No. Not even one point. It will just increase your enemy quota....something that, as a suck-up, you probably don't give a shit about anyway.

I am mildly entertained by some of the tips they give us, though. They say that whenever you have a disagreement between a female and a male in a prompt, it will generally be the male who is mistaken. Apparently you can pretty much depend on that because the LSAT has to make a concerted effort to be more "female-friendly"....or just more realistic. (: Also, if the prompt contains information about laws or legal practices, the favored one will always be the option that creates more laws, more restrictions, and basically things for lawyers to work on. Lovely.

Oh! And I am psyched that Rachel Maddow is getting her own show soon!!! She is by far my favorite news analyst and I will watch her show as religiously as I watch The Hills.








"Top 5 LSAT Faux Paus

5. Wearing War Paint: Seriously, Geronimo? This is the LSAT, not the Battle of The Little Big Horn or a high school football game. I’ve already built the test up to be far more important than it actually is. Your equating it with a bloody struggle for survival is not helping.

4. Having a Coughing Fit: I’ll excuse this one because I was the cougher in question, but in retrospect, it was certainly a faux-pas. If you were taking the LSAT this weekend in Akron, Ohio and couldn’t concentrate on the fifth section because a small Indian girl sounded like she was ready to unhinge an internal organ, I apologize.

3. Blatant Cheating: Whether searching for the experimental section, filling in bubbles past the time or scanning the work of the person next to you, there is no better way to get assaulted by a gang of Political Science majors than cheating on the LSAT. Pencils down means pencils down!

2. Over-packing: Good thing you brought eight pencils, five erasers, three extra layers of clothing, two water bottles, Kleenex, cough drops and a first aid kit. You never know what could happen. Actually, you do know what could happen–nothing! It’s a test, not a camping trip. How much could go wrong when you’re not allowed to leave the room? Here’s some advice: if the list of what you’re lugging to the test center sounds like a Christmas carol (and certainly if you are considering a partridge in a pear tree), you have over-packed.

1. Over-hyping Your Post-LSAT Plans: “Dude, this sucks. But when it’s over we’re sooo going to Mad4 and we’re going to get sooo trashed.” Clearly you’ve had to spend the past couple of weekends taking practice tests rather than hitting the bars and you’re feeling pretty insecure about it. If you’re a senior and still need to assure yourself of your own coolness during a standardized test, you need the sort of help that the Spin cannot provide."

-Amruta Godbole for the Daily Pennsylvanian
http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/2006/10/03/